Public Life
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Berlin and the Contradictions of Identity Politics
On July 25, twenty-one-year-old Abdul Ballout drove a van into a crowd at Berlin’s Pride festival before…
The Sun Also Rises at 100
The Hemingway style—terse, direct, formidable, in both prose and personal deportment—dominated American literature and the native ideal…
How the Press Lost Public Trust
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Tara Henley joins…
The Critic as Artist
In this episode, Dana Gioia joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…
All Labor Is Labor
The Elizabethan commonplace comparing creative production to pregnancy and birth is baked into the English language. We…
The Unfashionable Faith of Ann Widdecombe
Ann Widdecombe, Reform UK’s immigration and justice spokesperson and a former Conservative member of Parliament, was found…
The Marxist Who Understood Sex Better than the UMC
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has removed Asbury Theological Seminary from its list of institutions approved to…
A Jewish Case Against the Naked Public Square
When people ask where I intern, I watch their faces carefully. I say: First Things, a journal…
World Cup Blues, of a Sort
CRACOW. I usually find the quadrennial FIFA World Cup aggravating for the five reasons enumerated below, plus…
Are Autonomous Weapons Consistent with Human Rights?
What follows is a lightly edited version of the written testimony Camosy prepared for the Tom Lantos…
It’s Cool to Love America Again
The media would like you to know that the Great American State Fair, which took over the…
A Curriculum for National Success
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Christopher Perrin joins…
1776, Not 1789
America has just celebrated its 250th birthday amid a quiet but consequential confusion: a growing tendency to…
How Trump Betrayed the Pro-Life Movement
Several weeks after the 2016 election, Marjorie Dannenfelser received a voicemail from President-Elect Donald J. Trump. Her…
The Holdfast Sanctity of Sigrid Undset
When I traveled to Norway for the first time, I was already a devoted reader of Sigrid…
